conferment

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"It's an Anglican ceremony and the anointing is essential to that as the conferment of God's grace on the monarch," says Dr David Torrance, who has written a parliamentary research paper on coronations.

From BBC • Apr. 19, 2023

It implies the conferment on the people of power hitherto unknown in their history.

From The Awakening of China by Martin, W. A. P. (William Alexander Parsons)

At the time of the conferment of the tribunician authority, a series of senatorial decrees added or gave greater precision to the powers of Augustus.

From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly

It is possible that the conferment of this honour gave rise to the malicious story, which became not only distorted but misplaced.

From A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by Greenidge, A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones)

Sulla obtained the formal conferment on himself of absolute power.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval History by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir